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Re:The Ottoman Empire: Succession, Deposition and Fratricide on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:04PM (#17182052)
The Ottoman child "collecting" (Turkish: devşirme, devisirme) was an Ottoman practice of kidnapping young boys, especially Christians in the Balkans, for the purpose of raising them as soldiers or staffing sultan services( mainly sexual services)